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→The Jack Dorsey years
The original lawsuit, filed in 2016 by a Twitter shareholder, alleged Dorsey and others including former CEO Dick Costolo and board member Evan Williams hid facts about Twitter’s slowing user growth while they sold their personal stock holdings “for hundreds of millions of dollars in insider profits.”<ref>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-investor-lawsuit-settlement-payment-jack-dorsey-1235068982/</ref>
The original lawsuit, filed in 2016 by a Twitter shareholder, alleged Dorsey and others including former CEO Dick Costolo and board member Evan Williams hid facts about Twitter’s slowing user growth while they sold their personal stock holdings “for hundreds of millions of dollars in insider profits.”<ref>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-investor-lawsuit-settlement-payment-jack-dorsey-1235068982/</ref>
===Donald Trump===
[[President Donald Trump]] brought even more attention to the social networking site, and drew both more conservatives and critics. He was well-known for his plentiful, blunt, and oft humorous tweets, and made it a regular practice to communicate with the public using Twitter, even before his political career. He became quite popular on Twitter, with over 26 million followers. He became so popular, in fact, that searching just the letter "r", the fist letter of his username,"@realDonaldTrump" returned him as the first search suggestion. He was banned from Twitter on January 6th, 2021, after the mostly peaceful Capitol building protests.
===Promoting Chinese Communist propaganda===
In 2019, leading up to the 30th anniversary of the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]], Twitter suspended multiple accounts critical of China's Communist regime.<ref>Zeng, Jennifer (June 1, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-suspends-accounts-critical-of-chinese-regime-days-before-tiananmen-anniversary_2947359.html Twitter Suspends Accounts Critical of Chinese Regime Days Before Tiananmen Anniversary]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved June 2, 2019.<br>See also:
*Klar, Rebecca (June 2, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/446534-twitter-apologizes-for-blocking-accounts-ahead-of-tiananmen-square-anniversary Twitter apologizes for blocking accounts ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved June 2, 2019.</ref>
===Iranian protesters===
Iranian protesters angered by the results of [[Iran]]'s disputed presidential election started to tweet marches on the government. This forced the Islamic Republic to block all cell phone messaging in June 2009, as tweets can also be submitted via text message. At the request of the U.S. State Department, Twitter delayed scheduled maintenance to allow tweets from Iranians.
In a separate incident, a group calling itself "Iranian Cyber Army", hacked into Twitter and defaced their homepage. They replaced the page with a bold pro-Iranian and anti-American message.<ref>[http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/18/twitter-dns-attack-iran/ Twitter Hack: Part Of Broader Iranian Strategy, Techcrunch.com, December 18, 2009]</ref>
===Covid coverup scandal===
{{See also|CCP propaganda war}}
In December 2021, Alex Berenson, a former science writer for the ''New York Times'', filed a lawsuit against Twitter after he was suspended for posting the results of [[Pfizer COVID vaccine]] clinical tests.<ref>https://jonathanturley.org/2021/07/31/twitter-suspends-science-writer-after-he-posts-results-of-pfizer-clinical-test/</ref>
===Potential revocation of non-publisher immunity===
===Potential revocation of non-publisher immunity===